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Right off the bat, who knew that these still existed? I figured that DVD rental kiosks went the way of the Dodo, but I guess not, which makes this story possible. For that, I’m grateful.

Recently, a couple was looking for a movie to watch once the kids were asleep, but nothing to risqué as, you know kids, they might wake up and wander down.

Except, the move he rented, wasn’t what he was hoping to get.

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David Dixon and his wife are into comedy and for their planned Saturday night, kids-free date, they wanted to stay in and watch a movie.

So they went to the local Walmart that had a RedBox kiosk and picked what they hope would be a great Saturday night flick.

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Here’s what they decided on: Central Intelligence, starring The Rock and Kevin Hart. Pretty funny if you’re into Kevin Hart, and it’s not a bad way to spend a Saturday night.

Once the kids were asleep, they put it in the DVD player and hit play, they didn’t see their favourite wrestler turned actor doing this thing.

Oh no. They saw porn. There was no intro, no credits, just straight up explicit porn. Their RedBox just turned into RedTube.

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And what’s worse, it wasn’t anything resembling the kinds of things you’d easily find with a quick search or in the top viewed videos on PornHub. It was 60 and 70 year old people going at it in pretty raunchy ways.

That wasn’t a google search I wanted in my history, so here’s a picture of Betty White eating a hot dog. You get my drift on the kinds of things that Dave and his wife saw.

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David immediately pulled out the dvd and took a look at it. At the outset, it looks legit. The usual RedBox plastic case and the DVD was labelled correctly.

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Here’s an actual copy of Central Intelligence from RedBox on the left, and the DVD David rented on the right. They look identical.

It was only when he took a close look at the DVD, did he see that the label was peeling on the edges. Someone went through a lot of trouble to pull this prank.

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When he started pulling on the fake label (because who wouldn’t?), he found that the dvd was labelled “www.mostshockingsex.com,” with a big explicit sign on it. Definitely not the kind of film starring a Johnson they were hoping to see.

David says that if it had been seen by his kids, he would have been pretty angry, but since it was just his wife and himself, he admits that it’s kind of funny.

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When he contacted RedBox they just told him to return the DVD and they’ll send a technician to remove it, but didn’t really apologize and just offered the family some credits.

Sure. Free movies from a box in which no one really knows how many of those movies have been switched? Don’t think that’s a game of Russian Roulette I’d want to play. It also means that it could happen to someone again, until that disc is taken out of circulation.

Don’t like those odds.

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In the meantime, check your labels if you’re still renting from a RedBox (if there’s even any outside of this one), and good luck! Who knows what you’ll find. Or try Netflix.

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